#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,
A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
Dee Dee had to pick up her son at the airport. He was coming home from England for his vacation. He was 17, she told me, and his father was an ex-concert pianist. But he’d fallen for sp...
people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm